Crime Statistics for West Howe, Bear Cross, Bournemouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for West Howe in September 2024. There were a total of 433 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in West Howe, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	136
Anti Social Behaviour	104
Criminal Damage Arson	56
Vehicle Crime	39
Public Order	32
Other Theft	22
Burglary	18
Shoplifting	10
Possession Of Weapons	8
Drugs	6
Robbery	2
All Crime	433

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes West Howe. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to West Howe

We've taken the ten nearest places to West Howe and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if West Howe has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Turbary Common (0.62 miles)	524
Talbot Village (1.39 miles)	449
West Howe	403
Alderney (0.88 miles)	357
Ensbury Park (1.39 miles)	257
Wallisdown (1.24 miles)	242
Bourne Valley (1.39 miles)	214
Bear Cross (1.39 miles)	130
Bearwood (1.24 miles)	81
Knighton (1.39 miles)	18

Where are the most violent places near West Howe?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to West Howe and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Turbary Common	332
Alderney	137
West Howe	136
Talbot Village	121
Wallisdown	78
Bourne Valley	73
Ensbury Park	69
Bear Cross	35
Bearwood	20
Knighton	5

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in West Howe?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in West Howe to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in West Howe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to West Howe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.West Howe is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kinson	61
2	Newtown & Heatherlands	55
3	Alderney & Bourne Valley	53
4	Talbot & Branksome Woods	53
5	Wallisdown & Winton West	45
6	Redhill & Northbourne	37
7	Penn Hill	36
8	Parkstone	32
9	Bearwood & Merley	30
10	Oakdale	29
11	Canford Heath	26

Which road in West Howe has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in West Howe with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.